Mauricio Rivera
Senior Researcher
Email: mauriv@prio.org
Research Interests
- Conflict processes
- Crime and social violence
- Human rights violations and state repression
- Political regimes and regime change
Latest publications
All publications
A Double -Edge Sword? Mass Media and Nonviolent Dissent in Autocracies
Journal Article in Political Research Quarterly
Disaggregating Security Specific Provisions In Peace Agreements: The Disarmament, Demobilization, And Reintegration (DDR) Dataset, 1975-2021
Conference Paper
Unpacking Disloyalty: Dissent Strategies and Subversive Actions Among Security Forces
Conference Paper
Can Education Reduce Violent Crime? Evidence from Mexico before and after the Drug War Onset
Journal Article in Journal of Development Studies
Defection during dissent and regime transitions
Conference Paper
Drugs, Crime, and Nonstate Actors in Latin America
Journal Article in Latin American Politics and Society
Beyond coups: terrorism and military involvement in politics
Journal Article in European Journal of International Relations
Authoritarian Institutions and State Repression: The Divergent Effects of Legislatures and Opposition Parties on Personal Integrity Rights
Journal Article in Journal of Conflict Resolution
The Diffusion of Nonviolent Campaigns
Journal Article in Journal of Conflict Resolution
Beyond sticks and stones: Human capital enhancement efforts in response to violent crime in Latin America
Journal Article in European Journal of Political Research
Latest news
Call for Applications: Research Assistant Position at PRIO
PRIO seeks to recruit a Research Assistant in a 50% position, to work for 10 months on the DISARM project within the CVP department.
New Project on Disarmament
The DISARM project seeks is to identify the impact of disarmament processes on conflict recurrence and pinpoint the conditions under which disarmament can be the most effective. This is one out of five PRIO projects that today have received funding from the Research Council of Norway.
PRIO Has the Leading Experts on Protests
PRIO has long been at the forefront of research on protest movements.
As of 2020 PRIO houses three major projects that simultaneously are investigating mass mobilizations and protests. As a result, we will have a large team of leading experts in the field. This is something that no other research institution can boast of, either nationally or internationally.
Read more about this in Tora Sagård's summing up of these projects and the links between them.
The Crime-Reducing Effect of Education - Funding in Place for Project
Mauricio Rivera has received FINNUT funding from the Research Council of Norway for the 4-year project The Crime-Reducing Effect of Education: Disaggregating Education and Impact on Violent Crime (CREED). Congratulations to Mauricio and his project team, which includes Kendra Dupuy (PRIO), Kristian Hoelscher (PRIO), Gudrun Østby (PRIO), Kristian Skrede Gleditsch (Essex & PRIO), Barbara Zarate-Tenorio (Essex & Institute for Social Research), as well as Ernesto Cardenas (Universidad Javeriana).
Current projects
DISARM: How post-accord disarmament affects peace and conflict dynamics
The Crime-Reducing Effect of Education: Disaggregating Education and Impact on Violent Crime (CREED)
Securing the Victory? Understanding Dynamics of Short-run and Long-term Success in Popular Uprisings and Democratization
